Economic Development

Ten companies from the Greater Baton Rouge area have made this year’s Inc. 5000 list highlighting the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

Bollinger Shipyards is closing its operations in New Orleans and plans to shift the work to its larger facilities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, reports New Orleans City Business.

The Department of Energy has selected Baton Rouge-based professional solutions firm Aptim to deactivate, decommission and remove the Ion Beam Facility, a former nuclear testing site within the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. 

Recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that nearly 7% of jobs in Louisiana are in the construction industry, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national concentration, KTBS reports.

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Dream Motor Group, founded in Baton Rouge, has expanded into the Miami market with the recent acquisition of two Mercedes-Benz dealerships, making the group the second largest seller of Mercedes-Benz cars in the U.S., according to the group’s founder.

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East Baton Rouge Parish is close to fully implementing its new system for downtown Baton Rouge, though a few tweaks are pending before its official launch. 

The Energy Department announced this morning it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects in Louisiana and Texas to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history.